‘Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!’: Jerry Hauer edition

On Saturday, the public radio quiz show “Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!” included the Jerome Hauer gun-pointing incident that was brought out in last Monday’s Times Union story.

The story was used in “Bluff the Listener,” a segment in which a contestant has to pick the real item from three news stories that sound similarly outrageous. The other two choices — both bogus — described an incident of a run-amok tennis ball machine in Eau Claire, Wis., and fleas being used in an alternative energy presentation in Portland, Ore.

Panelist Adam Felber described Hauer’s case. “Gov. Cuomo has pledged to look into it, but stood by the maxim that the only thing which can stop a bad lecturer with a gun is a good lecturer with a gun,” he said.

This is, of course, a joke: In fact, neither Cuomo nor his press office has said a thing about the incident.

Hauer’s spokesman, Peter Cutler, continues to dodgequestions about Hauer’s activities, saying late Friday after seven months of inquiries that his boss had authorization to carry a weapon to work, but refusing to say by whom and since when.

The contestant correctly picked the Hauer story as being the genuine article.